Sentences with word «scrapheap»

Mears had been keen to establish a football team on an open piece of land in west London but difficulties arose and the idea looked like being consigned to scrapheap of unfulfilled dreams.

The other big design change - and you might want to sit down for this one - is that the silencing switch above the volume buttons has gone to the big Apple design scrapheap in the sky.

Am I destined for the graduate scrapheap with my drinker's degree?

That is exactly the issue at hand with our democracy today: politics concentrates power to a handful of voters in wealthier swing seats, while throwing 22m votes in the electoral scrapheap.

Thrown onto the political scrapheap by an ungrateful public, they can struggle to find a purpose and, in many cases, paid work.

Now they are finally consigned to the footballing scrapheap alongside muddy pitches and the battering ram centre forward.

Despite Redknapp's vast experience at most levels of the footballing pyramid, the former manager of Bournemouth, West Ham, Portsmouth (twice), Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers along with a brief spell in international management as the boss of Jordan, the popular 70 - year - old has been cast to the managerial scrapheap, likely to be for the final time.

This zero - g scrapheap has grown by 40 per cent in the past four years alone, with the US air force now tracking 19,000 orbiting objects larger than 10 centimetres across.

Either way, if the researchers fail to spot a dimming of the steady radio source associated with the Spitler burst, then the whole magnetar theory may be ready for the astrophysical scrapheap.

Though the new e-reader from Barnes & Noble generated considerable excitement this week, a more transformative innovation is just around the corner, one that could land dedicated e-book devices in the technological scrapheap along with eight - track tapes and rotary phones.

Avowedly «maximalist», they convey turbulence on steroids; scrapheaps blown into knots, masses fractured into particles, and unreadable compilations meant, I suspect, to look free and hallucinatory.

But millions of those people's votes are being thrown on the electoral scrapheap.

An otherwise entirely forgettable tablet, Tesco's Hudl 2 is rescued from history's scrapheap by virtue of its stonking value - for - money.

This kind of fatalism treats people like pieces of metal that can be thrown on the scrapheap.

Thus, there were expected to be few tears shed when the four bells, whose tolling has marked the march of time and a funereal adieu for the great and good at Notre Dame cathedral for 156 years, were taken from their belfry and consigned to the scrapheap.

He has stuff to work on, sure, but finding a way to complement his skillset, rather than toss him on the scrapheap, is something any GM with an eye to the future should be doing.

But start playing Bower & Jaleel, add one FA off the scrapheap and take a guy in the draft (maybe Jalyn Holmes, Taven Bryant, or Arden Key in the 2nd if they're there, or take a flier on PJ Hall late) and you're golden

The above 2 gibbs, walcott, giroud, ox, scz, unless these jokes are thrown on the scrapheap nothing is going to change.

Then there was a week ago at Indianapolis, the site of his last Cup victory, when he clearly had the superior car before a bobble by quasi-teammate Martin Truex Jr. on a restart sent both crashing and turned the No. 18 Toyota into a mangled mess destined for the scrapheap.

And the Toffees joined their fellow clubs on the scrapheap after they failed to capitalise on their narrow lead from the first leg against Dynamo Kiev.

Other players will be confined to the scrapheap for a couple of bad performances.

Now, part of his fall was down to van Persie's form, part was his own confidence smashed into the ground, but when Wenger insists on playing some players despite their clear lack of form (Denilson, Eboue, Arshavin, now Iwobi), it does saddens me how some get chucked on the scrapheap so quickly.

Madrid must be getting itchy fingers to buy a shiny new toy and Bale might find himself on the scrapheap as a result.

Not yet consigned to the scrapheap, he nevertheless finds himself behind Thibaut Courtois in the pecking order despite being labelled as «one of the best three keepers in the world» by Mourinho.

The last thing you want to do is throw him on the scrapheap after paying so much for him.

A host of outdated local laws are set the join the scrapheap of legislation the coalition government is prepared to eliminate.

The Lib Dems argue the system will create a «two - tier» education system with some children «cast on a scrapheap».

And youth unemployment, where people can find themselves left on the scrapheap without even having been given the chance to prove themselves, is a scourge we must tackle.

Having been delayed rather than ditched, the Osborne cuts ought to be easy for May to consign permanently to the scrapheap.

«The point is this: you could have the best Labour mayor we've ever seen, but if you've got a Tory government privatising the NHS, not building homes, increasing inequality, keeping the bedroom tax, having young people thrown on the scrapheap, leaving the European Union, Scotland breaking away from the United Kingdom, what is the point?»

And yet this is the same government that passed an emergency budget that could put more than a million workers on the scrapheap, that jacks up a VAT that lands heaviest on those who are the most hard - up, that floats shrinking some public services by up to 40 % — that almost gleefully drops the guillotine of cuts on the necks of the poor.

The C2 voters who walked away will bear the brunt of Conservative thrift, the once - Blairite middle classes are contemplating the scrapheap, and Lib Dem supporters are appalled that Nick Clegg has become the Trojan horse for Tory cuts.

Such inordinately powerful «superpositions» could send today's supercomputers to the scrapheap

Some women eventually embrace the opportunity for new beginnings and experiences, others feel like they have been left on the scrapheap to wither away.

Every time the kid looks at a field of numbers and symbols that start jiggling across a screen to clicky music, but not jiggling as fast as his brain, he's exiling the kind of hero played by Willis to the scrapheap of history.

To the chagrin of the seasoned and artificially maintained models Gigi (Bella Heathcote) and the more neurotic Sarah (Abbey Lee), who are already facing the scrapheap in their early twenties, Jessie's natural look and virginal glow is the source of the magnetism instantly recognized by a cynical booking agent (Christina Hendricks), a vampiristic photographer (Desmond Harrington), and a salivating designer (Alessandro Nivola).

Then it's back to London for some very bad news: MI6's Double - 0 program is under threat thanks to the machinations of creepy surveillance agent C (Andrew Scott), leaving old warhorses like M (Ralph Fiennes), Q (Ben Whishaw) and Bond himself facing the scrapheap.

Much like the scrapheap robot at its centre, yes this movie is stupid, but its heart is in the right place.

Dead Island was much more colourful, whereas I was hoping this new generation would see the belief that «good graphics» equals «brown» get cast onto the scrapheap.

Among the other infamous titles are David Cronenberg's Frankenstein, Roger Avery's Phantasm and a remake of the classic 1954 horror Creature from the Black Lagoon, which has been consigned to the scrapheap despite being linked to an string of high - profile directors including John Carpenter, Peter Jackson, Ivan Reitman and Guillermo del Toro.

And because this story is ostensibly about a scrapheap cyborg assassin, and not just four really bad dudes, Maze Runner's Rosa Salazar has been cast as the eponymous battle angel.

When the original screenplay was leaked online earlier in this year, Quentin Tarantino announced that The Hateful Eight was for the scrapheap.

With the Civic Type - R consigned to the scrapheap in the sky, the CR - Z MUGEN could be the replacement we've all been waiting for.

In my opinion, the CVT is destined for the scrapheap of history.

Before you throw a book on the scrapheap, consider whether --

The days of debtor's prisons have been assigned to the scrapheap of history.

After what seemed like only fifteen minutes, the Ouya collapsed into a scrapheap of decent ideas, poor execution, and over-ambition.